Oleh Arnold

22 December 2013

Posted: 21 Dec 2013 12:30 PM PST

In our technologically advanced era there is an endless amount of methods for exploring a foreign land and it's often impossible to choose one that will best suit our needs. Given that nowadays even the seemingly most luxurious options tend to be somewhat affordable, people often choose those, which are the least tiring and the most pleasurable. Yet, there is still a small group of people willing to take up the challenge and begin a life-changing journey into the unknown. Although very short, that's an adequate summary of what happens in Hit the Road: India.Directed by Armenian brothers Gor and Mushegh Baghdasaryan, Hit the Road: India closely follows two friends, Richard Gazarian and Keith King, as they travel across the country in a rickshaw, a...

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THE SCRIBBLER Is All In Xlrator Media's Head.

Posted: 21 Dec 2013 12:00 PM PST

The big screen adaptation of Daniel Schaffer's graphic novel The Scribbler is coming to screens in the Fall of 2014 thanks to Xlrator Media. They acquired the North American rights to the film today. The Scribbler was directed by John Suits, producer of festival circuit hits Cheap Thrills and Bad Milo. The screenplay was written by Schaffer from his own material. THE SCRIBBLER follows Suki (Katie Cassidy), a young woman confronting her destructive mental illness using "The Siamese Burn," an experimental machine designed to eliminate multiple personalities. The closer Suki comes to being "cured," she's haunted by a thought... what if the last unwanted identity turns out to be her?Cassidy will be joined on screen by Michelle Trachtenberg (Buffy and Gossip Girl), Eliza Dushku (Buffy and Dollhouse), Gina Gershon (Killer...

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Trailer for TRANSCENDENCE Tackles Big Sci-Fi Concept

Posted: 21 Dec 2013 11:30 AM PST

Cinematographer Wally Pfister has not been behind the camera for Christopher Nolan's heady 2014 science fiction blockbuster Interstellar, because he has been busy with his own directorial debut, Transcendence. The even heady-er (if that is a word) project aims to tackle identity, memory, immortality and evolution of the human consciousness, seemingly with all the bombast that Hollywood is known for. This is perhaps a small step backwards after the marvellous optimism at play in Spike Jonze's Her, insofar as we are back to the default 'fear' that usually is piled on in these projects. But no matter, with Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany, Morgan Freeman, Kate Mara, Rebecca Hall, Clifton Collins Jr. and Cillian Murphy, and a world class cinematographer at the helm, there is no doubt...

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